A great read if you like to follow the industry NYT article Apple/Google

[Pliablemoose]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/technology/14brawl.html?pagewanted=1&src=tptw

“It’s World War III. Amazing animosity is motivating two of the most powerful people in the industry,” he says. “This is emotional. This is the biggest ego battle in history. It’s incendiary.”

Seems the implementation of multi touch on Android is what sparked the patent law suits... As I suspected, there was a gentlemans agreement over it...

 

[pm]

That is a really interesting article. I knew all of it in parts - more or less - but it's nice to see it all laid out as a narrative.

Thanks for posting it.

 

[Pliablemoose]

This is a great movie if you're a geek, its available from Netflix...

Pirates of Silicon Valley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im589uTchKs

 

[zerocool84]

Apple believes that devices like smartphones and tablets should have tightly controlled, proprietary standards and that customers should take advantage of services on those gadgets with applications downloaded from Apple’s own App Store.

Google, on the other hand, wants smartphones to have open, nonproprietary platforms so users can freely roam the Web for apps that work on many devices.

One big reason why I'll never buy an Apple product. They lock down their hardware/software to ridiculous levels.